What is your favorite restaurant? Vote Now for The Choice 2016!

What is your favorite hotel buffet? What is your favorite pizza joint? What is your favorite fine dining restaurant? Which offers the best ambiance? Best service? LET’S FACE IT: It’s getting harder and harder to answer these questions now that every month, every week, and almost every day it seems, there’s a new restaurant opening in Metro Manila. There are a lot of great new dining choices, side by side with the perennials, the classics that we grew up with.

As food bloggers, writers, and members of the F&B industry, we’re always very curious about the crowd favorites. The popular vote, if you will.

So, Our Awesome Planet and the Blogger Collective known as the KTG (Kain Tulog Gang),and World Food Expo (WOFEX) have partnered to conduct the one and only People’s Choice Awards for their Favorite Food, Restaurants, Bars, and more~ or simply, “The Choice“.

If you have the time and want to have a say in recognizing THE BEST restaurants in various categories, please answer the survey here –> The Choice 2016 Survey

About The Choice Awards

We conducted an intense first round of voting among ourselves, and our resulting finalists have made us very pleased. We feel it’s a very diverse and fair representation of all our Metro Manila favorites. The categories are very broad, as they should be in a democratic vote.

However, we’d like to emphasize that this is NOT a “Best of…” list. Our good friends and respected colleagues from The MBKRS are doing an excellent job of recognizing the restaurants and restaurateurs in their prestigious bi-annual awards.

The MBKRS are rightly regarded as the Oscars of our ever growing foodie community. So we’d like “The Choice” to be the Golden Globes ~ a bit more irreverent, surely less formal, and yes, it ought to be greatly biased. After all, YOU will be voting for your favorites, this is YOUR CHOICE!!!

We had a total of 2,075 respondents during the inaugural The Choice 2015 survey. Click here for a look back at our inaugural awards held at the SMX Mall of Asia in August of 2015.

The Choice 2016 Voting is open for 2 weeks starting from August 15 and ends on August 31, 2016 12 midnight. The Choice Restaurant Awarding will happen on September 17, Saturday during the Ultimate Taste Test 2016! Check this out for more details of the UTT 2016.

The Survey Parameters

1. For the Favorite New Restaurant category, our coverage period includes restaurants that opened between June 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016.

2. There are 50 questions in this survey and answering this survey should take around 5-10 minutes. It is best to give a definitive answer on each question and feel free to skip if you can’t decide.

3. All answers are treated confidential and final once you click on the submit button. One survey response for one person only.

4. Please give us your name and email address for our random validation of the survey responses.

5. For the Favorite Out-of-Town Destination category, we now changed it to have a more detailed Favorite Restaurant Category for each foodie destination.

The KTG

The KTG is a group of friends who all just happen to be some of the top food and lifestyle bloggers in the Philippines; every one of their individual blogs ranks among the highest ranking and most influential online publications dedicated to food, entertainment, and travel.

The KTG is composed of some of the more senior food bloggers in the country, including Richie Zamora of “The Pickiest Eater in the World’, Spanky Enriquez of “Manila Boy”, Jill Bantang of “The Food Scout”, and representing the younger generation are “The Hungry Kat“, “Food in the Bag“, and “Nines vs. Food“. And from the world of showbiz, Mr. Chuckie Dreyfus, a dedicated foodie who’s also a respected tech blogger.

The KTG’s objectives are not limited to discovering the best restaurants, however. While it’s affectionately called the “Kain Tulog Gang“, it’s officially participated in relief efforts in Tacloban and Iloilo after Yolanda; and in Metro Manila, this “Kapatiran sa Tulong at Ginhawa” is on a constant mission to contribute in providing joy and comfort to the less fortunate.

Food and Lifestyle Blogger in Manila

Roch Santos-Sioco is behind the blog Rochkirstin | com. Based in Manila, Philippines, she's a digital marketing strategist by day (and sometimes by night, let's get real) and a blogger with a large appetite for food & travel. She always aims to create content that's meaningful and enjoyable, whether it's a full-length blog post or a 140-character tweet.

When not blogging or eating, you can find her thinking about innovative technologies, planning out where to eat or travel next, or looking up on trends about health, pets, and wine. :)

Get in touch with her through rochkirstin@yahoo.com or view the About page to know more.